Live Play Data

Shadowspear

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Theros Beyond Death (THB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1838

Decks Running

941

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

85%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=363

20%

11%

10%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 20% (71 / 363 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 60%

The "good card" funnel

1839 brought · 727 players

Brought to game

1839

Ever drawn

429

Reached battlefield

363

Still on board at game end

298

Once cast, 82% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=318) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=57).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

478 instances

2.1%

Library

62.3%

Battlefield

19.9%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 47 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 42 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 26 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 22 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 16 decks
6 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 15 decks
7 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 15 decks
8 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 13 decks
9 Wolverine, Best There Is 13 decks
10 Captain America, First Avenger 12 decks

Card text

Shadowspear

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}

: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.